"When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind."
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"A young child's brain has a thinner skull and the brain contains more fluid. The more fluid or fat in any material, the more it absorbs microwave radiation."
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"I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. And that, O kinsman, is why a woman has broad hips; that bony basin will harbor a man and his child alike. A man's life springs from his woman's bones, and in her blood is his honor christened. For the sake of love alone, I would walk through fire again."
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"Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some sort?" "No, it's only she's married me," he said, "though if ye care to call it an accident, ye may."
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"What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained."
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"He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, "Lord, that she might be safe, she and my children." Then turned his cheek to her reaching hand and touched her throught the veils of time."
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"By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's efforts to reassure the parents of America that the food they feed their children is the product of the safest system in the world."
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"Lord that she might be safe. She and my children."
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"Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another."
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"Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God."
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"My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old."
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"Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look."
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"I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well."
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"I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red."
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"I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child."
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"I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine."
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"I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children."
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"My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?"
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"We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life."
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"I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc."
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